before leaving washington this week, in an essay for "time" magazine on thanksgiving, house speaker john boehner invoked the settlers, who celebrated the first thanksgiving and observed that by the goodness of god, we are so far from want. i pray all americans are able to enjoy the lord's blessings this holiday in good health and happiness. you know who wasn't able to enjoy this holiday, the 47 million people whose food benefits were automatically cut a month ago and who face even more hardship courtesy of the republican effort to cut food stamp funds by $39 billion. you brought this up a moment ago, raul. this idea that maybe part of who the public is talking about are lawmakers. let's get together and enjoy god's blessings, well, actually, we'll need resources to do that. >> right, not everybody can do it. and i thought it was such an important point you touched upon. if everyone has ever thought about the timing of the benefits, because anyone who has ever lived ton food stamps, you are obsessed with the end of the month, because you have to make things -- the resources stretch until that tim